Daniel R. Salemi
Dan Salemi is the deputy practice group leader for the firm’s global employee benefits and executive compensation group. He counsels clients on the full range of issues related to retirement plans, health and welfare plans, multiemployer plans, fiduciary governance, benefit plan investments and deferred and equity-based compensation arrangements. Dan is known for helping clients navigate high-stakes, complex situations with clarity and confidence. He has been described in Chambers USA and other publications as “measured,” “very thorough,” “highly prepared,” and as having “a unique ability to make the most complex benefits and ERISA issues understandable.”
Dan works with clients to design and maintain state-of-the-art benefit plans and compensation arrangements to achieve each client’s unique operational goals. His broad background in the employee benefits area includes the representation of clients who are dealing with employee benefits and executive compensation issues in mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs, restructuring, collective bargaining, and litigation. Dan represents clients across the United States in various industries, including public, private, and nonprofit organizations.
Among other types of clients, Dan works extensively with clients in the multiemployer plans space and has substantial experience with the wide variety of benefits and labor law issues that these clients face. In addition to serving as counsel to several large multiemployer pension and health plans, Dan represents and counsels clients on pension withdrawal liability and other issues related to participation in multiemployer pension and health/welfare plans. He advises clients on pension withdrawal liability issues in a variety of contexts, including collective bargaining, workforce restructuring, subcontracting, corporate transactions, and plant relocations and closures, and represents clients in any resulting litigation. Dan also regularly represents employer trustees to multiemployer plans in deadlock arbitrations, covering a variety of issues.
Dan serves on Institutional Investor’s Defined Contribution Institute Advisory Board.
